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Ripened vs Mellow - What's the difference?

ripened | mellow |

As verbs the difference between ripened and mellow

is that ripened is past tense of ripen while mellow is to make mellow; to relax or soften.

As an adjective mellow is

soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.

As a noun mellow is

a relaxed mood.

ripened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ripen)

    • Anagrams

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    ripen

    English

    (Ripening)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
    • Grapes ripen in the sun.
  • * 1918 , (John Muir), Steep Trails Chapter XII
  • *:...the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
  • To approach or come to perfection.
  • To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
  • To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
    • When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.

    Derived terms

    * ripening

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    mellow

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
    • a mellow apple
  • Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.
    • a mellow soil
  • * Drayton
    • flowers of rank and mellow glebe
  • Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
  • * Wordsworth
    • the mellow horn
  • * Thomson
    • the mellow -tasted Burgundy
  • * Percival
    • The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues / Heaven with all freaks of light.
  • Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
  • * Wordsworth
    • May health return to mellow age.
  • * Washington Irving
    • as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound
  • Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated; or, stoned, high.
    • (Addison)

    Derived terms

    * mellowness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A relaxed mood.
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make mellow; to relax or soften.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * J. C. Shairp
    • The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.
  • To become .

    • Derived terms

    * harshing my mellow (harsh one's mellow) * mellow out